Musement

2023 In Review

Yes, those are swastikas in the header photo. Click to find out!

Jan 1, 2024

October 2023

I Don't Care About American Censorship

It's the end of the Gutenberg Parenthesis as we know it, and I feel fine

Oct 19, 2023

September 2023

Bowie's Bookshelf

Why do book lists feel like a bigger deal than other personal lists?

Sep 27, 2023

The Peasant Humanists of the Italian Renaissance

The Cheese & the Worms & Peasant Reading Cultures

Sep 12, 2023

August 2023

Hwaet We Want From Anglo-Saxon Translation

Should we translate Old English like a foreign language, or honor its weirdness?

Aug 21, 2023

Magic Writing At The Hobbit Post Office

Magic versus prose in Tolkien's novels

Aug 1, 2023

July 2023

The Kentucky Hobbit Hypothesis

Why do we care about finding the "real" Middle Earth?

Jul 14, 2023

I Played that Medieval Manuscript Video Game

Fonts and fates in Pentiment

Jul 8, 2023

June 2023

Do Goodreads Reviews Even Matter for Sales?

Eat, Pray, Love, but for early modern Orthodox schismatic sects

Jun 29, 2023

So You Want to Invent a Writing System

Of Orcs and Orthography

Jun 23, 2023

The Story of the German-Uzbek Mennonites in Three Books

(As gleaned from a fourth book, Sofia Samatar's The White Mosque)

Jun 14, 2023

May Links

Punctuation, Penisland.net, and PEN problems

Jun 1, 2023